Cherokee County school district officials are making plans for an Education SPLOST renewal and associated bonds to pay for construction projects and other district expenses.
During a school board work session, superintendent Brian Hightower presented a plan for a November referendum seeking $115 million for three major construction projects, renovation and repairs, land acquisition, technology upgrades, replacement of aging school buses and retirement of bond debt from the last 15 years of construction projects.
District officials said the expansion is needed because thousands of new homes are under construction in the county and that the ESPLOST would fund such projects as classroom additions at Woodstock and Mill Creek Middle schools as well as the purchase of 150 new school buses.
Officials said if the ESPLOST renewal’s not approved, the property tax rate will go up 5 mills to make bond debt repayments.
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